Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

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Archaeological and historical scholarship completed during the last decade has revealed much about the built environments of slavery and the day-to-day lives of enslaved workers in North The us. Cabin, Quarter, Plantation is the first book to take this new research into account and comprehensively examine the architecture and landscapes of enslavement on plantations and farms.

This important work brings together the most productive writing in the field, including classic pieces on slave landscapes by W. E. B. DuBois and Dell Upton, alongside new essays on such topics as the building methods that Africans brought to the American South and information about slave circle of relatives units and non secular practices that may be gathered from archaeological remains. Through deep analysis of the built environment the authors invite us to reconsider antebellum buildings, landscapes, cabins, yards, and garden plots, and what these sites can teach us about the actual conditions of enslavement. The place to begin in any study of slavery and the built environment, this anthology makes crucial contributions to our understanding of American slavery and to the fields of landscape history and architectural history.

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